“I guaran-damn-tee you we are not down 30 points,” David Perdue told reporters last week in response to a Fox News poll that showed him trailing GOP governor Brian Kemp.
New David Perdue tonight: “We may not win Tuesday, but I can damn guarantee you that we are not down 30 points.” pic.twitter.com/j50LS1tvzC
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) May 20, 2022
With half of the votes counted in Georgia’s gubernatorial primary tonight, the Trump-backed Perdue is trailing incumbent GOP governor Brian Kemp by 50 points.
Trump recruited and endorsed Perdue simply because he was angry that Kemp did not try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Perdue had said he would not have certified Biden’s Electoral College victory in the state. As Politico reported last month, Trump made his first campaign investment in 2022 in a super PAC trying to defeat Kemp. But a strong majority of Georgia GOP primary voters simply weren’t animated by Trump’s 2020 election grievances.